Summary
Vadim Rihlea is a Roku and OTT specialist with 11 years of professional experience and a 13-year background in software development, focused on building high-performance BrightScript and BrighterScript applications. He has modernized large-scale Roku apps for clients like Crunchyroll and QVC, adding testing frameworks, deep linking, custom navigation, and in-app commerce integrations while improving memory and launch performance. Vadim has implemented analytics and real-time telemetry systems, contributed to open-source Roku tooling (BrighterScript), and built CI-friendly deploy and testing tooling including OCR-based UI validation. Comfortable across the full stack, he also brings prior backend experience in Ruby on Rails and PHP, which helps align Roku SDK behavior with cross-platform architectures. Based in Chișinău, Moldova, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to monitoring and QA, often driving architectural consistency and developer-friendly tooling that reduces production friction.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
Romanian, Russian, English, German